I Got Stripes

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"On a Monday"
Single by Lead Belly
Released1939 (1939)
Genre Country
"I Got Stripes"
Single by Johnny Cash
A-side "I Got Stripes"
"Five Feet High and Rising"
ReleasedJuly 1959 (1959-07)
Genre Country
Length2:04
Label Columbia 4-41427
Songwriter(s) Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash [1]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Katy Too"
(1959)
"I Got Stripes"
(1959)
"Goodbye Little Darlin'"
(1959)
Audio
"I Got Stripes" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard [2] Spotlight winner of the week

"I Got Stripes" is a song recorded by Johnny Cash.

Cash's version is credited to him and Charlie Williams, [3] but they borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "On a Monday". [4]

Contents

Lead Belly's original, also known as "Yellow Women's Door Bells" and "Almost Done", was recorded and released by him in 1939 [5] and reflected his "prison experiences". [6]

Johnny Cash version

The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959 [7] [8] and released as a single in July, [9] with "Five Feet High and Rising" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side. [7] [8] [4] [10] [11] [12] [13] [ excessive citations ]

According to Robert Hilburn and his book Johnny Cash: The Life, "I Got Stripes" is a "raucous prison tale" written by Johnny Cash and Charlie Williams, a DJ from Los Angeles and Cash's friend. They borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "On a Monday". [4]

Charts

Chart (1959)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [14] 43
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [15] 4

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